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Found a couple of interesting ‘queue’ type projects queue - have one terminal waiting for commands in another to complete before continuing nq - no matter how many times you call a thing (e.g. transcode a video?) only one gets run at a time… :-) [Read More]

Another placeholder just to jog my memory (copied straight from Server Fault, see below) copy the VM’s disks from /var/lib/libvirt/images on src host to the same dir on destination host on the source host run virsh dumpxml VMNAME > domxml.xml and copy this xml to the dest. host... [Read More]

This is one of those posts that’s just a placeholder for me to remember how to do something, if it helped you too, that’s great. Original thread on AskUbuntu Assign a new disk to the VM in virt-manager, or using virsh, as you prefer - choose VirtIO for... [Read More]

I’ve got a bunch of servers behind an nginx reverse proxy, one in particular, Jenkins publishes the results of its builds to an Artifactory. To do so, in its config I had to put the URL of the artifactory server, naturally this is in the private IP range... [Read More]

Many times you want to be able to send emails from a server that you’ve set up, but unless you happen to be lucky to have your own IP block, and instead you need to rely on the IP address assigned to you by some virtual host provider, you’ll probably... [Read More]